Don't you mean 70

People forget that Steele's first couple defenses were good

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Posted: Jan 9, 2014 12:23 PM

He's a good coach who I think was trying to do too much with a Clemson defense that just didn't have much at LB and DB.

In Steele's first year, Clemson only gave up 21 pts/ game and 317 yards/ game (22nd in the country). In 2010, Clemson gave up 17.8 pts/ game (10th in the country) and 323 yards/ game (24th in the country). It was only in 2011 that things started to fall apart, as Clemson gave up 379 yards/ game and 26 pts/ game. So the truth is that the meltdown in 2011 was more of a bad exception to his pretty good tenure as a DC.

And then he brought in "his" recruits

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Posted: Jan 9, 2014 10:00 PM

Remember, this is the same guy that didn't recruit a headhunter like Boulware. Don't get me wrong, I liked Steele his first couple of years too. He just didn't adjust to the game as it evolved which it did very quickly.